"If You Grow Crops Other Than Rice, Direct Payments Will Be Provided"

Gyeonggi Province is accepting applications for the cultivation of winter and summer crops to provide strategic crop direct payments.

The strategic crop direct payment program supports the cultivation of barley, wheat, etc. in winter paddy fields and corn or sesame, etc. in summer paddy fields to stabilize rice supply and improve food self-sufficiency. Depending on the crop, direct payments of up to 5 million KRW per hectare are provided.

Winter crops include food and forage crops such as hulless barley, rice barley, wheat, rye, oats, alfalfa, and green barley, which can be harvested before the end of June.

The program targets agricultural management entities that cultivate strategic crops on at least 0.1 hectares of farmland actually used for paddy rice farming according to their agricultural management registration information. For cultivating food crops or forage crops in winter, 500,000 KRW per hectare is supported, and for wheat, 1 million KRW per hectare is provided.

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

For cultivating sweet corn or sesame in summer, 1 million KRW per hectare is provided; for cultivating rice flour or legumes, 2 million KRW; and for forage cultivation, 5 million KRW. If winter wheat or forage crops are cultivated and summer crops such as paddy soybeans or rice flour are double-cropped, an additional incentive of 1 million KRW can be received.

Applications for winter crops are accepted until the 31st of this month, and for summer crops, applications must be submitted to the local Eup, Myeon, or Dong Happiness Welfare Center by May 30th. Following the implementation inspection by the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (winter: April to June, summer: July to October), direct payments will be made in December.

Jung In-woong, Director of the Eco-friendly Agriculture Division of Gyeonggi Province, urged, "We hope for active participation from farmers and agricultural corporations to improve food self-sufficiency and stabilize rice supply."

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